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Luke Hankins

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Asheville
As seen in: Asheville Poetry Review, Orison Books, Medium, Mountain Xpress, Poets & Writers Magazine, Jewish Book Council, Contemporary Poetry Review
Writer, Translator, Founder and Editor of @OrisonBooks, Senior Editor at Asheville Poetry Review
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The Sad Tale of the Soft Sale: How Book Returns Work and Why You Should Care

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By Luke Hankins Verified
| Poets & Writers Magazine Verified
Ten years ago I founded Orison Books, a nonprofit literary press in Asheville, North Carolina, with a unique mission to publish exceptional literary work that engages the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives. At the time, I had experience as a published author and as a literary magazine editor, but I didn’t understand the complexities of book distribution.
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Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth

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By Angus Smith, Nomi Stone, Luke Hankins Verified
| Jewish Book Council
Review By – July 1, 2024 The framers of Israel’s Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence were care­ful to sit­u­ate the guar­an­tee of ​“equal­i­ty of social and polit­i­cal rights to all of its inhab­i­tants” at the very heart of the text. Well versed in con­sti­tu­tion­al his­to­ry, and steeped in both Jew­ish tra­di­tion and the prin­ci­ples of the enlight­en­ment, they strove to cre­ate a foun­da­tion­al doc­u­ment that would be as inspi­ra­tional as the Amer­i­can Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence.
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Effing up the Ineffable, and: Composition

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By Luke Hankins Verified
| muse.jhu.edu
Effing up the Ineffable, and: Composition Effing up the Ineffable We're always effing up the ineffable.We approach it stealthily, holding outa tender proboscis of words—and then the petals clench together,the nectar out of reach. Or we wake in the morning to find it strewnacross our bodies as simply as sunlight,and we try to grasp it, hold it close,but it fades to memory in our clutch,and then memory evaporates like a dream.
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